Do you ever get a text that starts like this? “Hi, (Craig). Joe Biden here, asking you for your support in the upcoming election….” Anyone’s first thought would be that the president of the United States is most definitely not …
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Climate Change Mitigation: World Governance?
Here’s a review of the new book Children of a Modest Star that ponders the consequences of governance that would sit above the 206 sovereign nations when it comes to climate change mitigation and pandemic control. There is no doubt …
Poorly Written PR Makes Author Look Like Jackass
It’s interesting to watch the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, through its media arm The Daily Signal, use PR to forward its messages. They start off with the same framework that we all use: Find a piece of breaking news that has …
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Re: Climate Change Mitigation, Our World Leaders Are Failing Miserably
Here’s a great article on the moral imperative to address climate change. Its point: “To be complacent about climate is … to endorse future human suffering on an almost inconceivable scale.” As we look back on 2023, the hottest year …
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Why We Don’t Value Our Scientists
This from physicist Brian Greene. Sadly, very few young people can name (let alone look up to) a single living scientist. Ultimately, this is due to our society’s fixation on money. Rock stars and football quarterbacks enjoy vast media exposure …
Scientific Literacy
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is. I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against …
Are There Good Reasons Not to Care about the Future of Our Planet?
I used to co-coach my kids’ soccer with a devout Christian who couldn’t get his wits wrapped around my passion for the environment. Since the world is soon coming to an end, as laid out in the Book of Revelation, …
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Why This Republican Candidate Doesn’t Stand a Chance
At first I thought this was a joke, but no, it isn’t. Here’s a fine young idiot, running for the Republican presidential nomination, who bases his campaign on “radical new ideas.” News flash: “radical” is the very last thing that …
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The Bitter Disappointment that is Elon Musk
He could have been a man of compassion, a humanitarian, a savior to millions of starving children, the spearhead of climate change mitigation. It’s hard to imagine a bigger moral catastrophe.
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A Time Machine Could Tell Us What We Already Know
Barring a miracle, the average temperature of the Earth is going to rise somewhere between 2°and 5° C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the 21st Century. The planet will be ravaged by storms, wildfires, droughts, and the loss …
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